Celebrities - Inventors

	Tracy Hall	synthetic diamond	1919-2008
	Trevor Baylis	a wind-up radio	born 1937
	Victor Hasselblad	invented the 6 x 6 cm single-lens reflex camera	1906-1978
	Vitaly Mikhaylovich Abalakov	Camming devices, Abalakov thread (or V-thread) gearless ice climbing anchor.	1906-1986
	Vladimir Shukhov	Shukhov cracking process.	1853-1939
	Vladimir Zworykin	Iconoscope, kinescope.	1889-1982
	Wallace Carothers	Nylon	1896-1937
	Walter Houser Brattain	co-inventor of the transistor	1902-1987
	Werner von Siemens	an electromechanical "dynamic"	1816-1892
	Whitcomb Judson	zipper	1836-1909
	Wilbur Wright	powered airplane	1867-1912
	Willard Frank Libby	Radiocarbon dating	1908-1980
	Willem Johan Kolff	artificial kidney hemodialysis machine	born 1911
	William Bradford Shockley	co-inventor of transistor	1910-1989
	William Cullen	first artificial refrigerator	1710-1790
	William Cumberland Cruikshank	chlorinated water	1745-1800
	William Friese-Greene	cinematography	1855-1921
	William George Armstrong	hydraulic crane	1810-1900
	William H. Dobelle	first functioning artificial eye	1943-2004
	William Kennedy Laurie Dickson	motion picture camera	1860-1935
	William Murdoch	Gas lighting	1754-1839
	William Oughtred	slide rule	1575–1660
	William Robert Grove	fuel cell	1811-1896
	William Siemens	regenerative furnace	1823-1883
	Yi Xing	invented the escapement mechanism	683-727
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